Pocket • 1999 • Engelsk

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Name: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and po...Vis mer

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ISBN

9780393319804

Forlag

W. W. Norton Company

Publiseringsår

1999

Språk

Engelsk

Originaltittel

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Format

Pocket

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